The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-06-25
Park Notes.


Yellowstone Park opens for 1887 even
better than its most devoted admirers
could wish.
G.. L. Henderson has made the grand
rounds three times already and still finds
new and interesting objects even for him,
where six years of careful investigation
and indcfatigable labor might lead one
to suppose that all of Wonderland IS
discovered, digested and thoroughly un-
derstood. He assures us that such is not
the case that those who have visited it
second and third time 60 away con-
vlnced that it is the only field for amuse-
ment, recreation and study that can never
be exhausted. That it is the cosmopol-
tan, Park of parks, wonder of wonders,
world in itself that surpasses the widest
dreams of poet and philosopher.
In his last circuit of the Park he was
accompanied by Mr.. Millener and his
two daughters and Mr.. Henry Gilbert
and wife, all from the state of Michigan.
Mr.. Millener was making his second tour
of the Park and assured Mr.. Henderson
that he knew of no place that he had
ever visited, either in this country or in
Europe, where second visit was more
delightful than first and excited the de-
sire to make third, as that of Yellow
stone Park. His two daughters, Jennie
and Winnie, fully concurred in this SEN
timent and we're glad that their first
journey away from their own "dear
Michigan" led them into Fairyland,
land whose canyon combined the grand
and the beautiful to such a degree that
no possible addition could be made nor
could anything be subtracted without
marring the whole effect. From the up
per falls to Inspiration point, the divine
artist had omitted nothing that could ex-
cite all the emotions. The rainbows
cleaned and vibrated in the clouds that
arose from the falls and fell in great
drops like summer showers as in atom
lied vapor, like the white robes Of an
angel futtering in the wind. These rain
bows seemed to have been crystalized
into tangible realities and were seen
in fragments IN every curve and tower,
bastion and battlement, from the edge of
the ribbon-like river below, to the forest
clad cliffs ], 200 feet above it.
"There is no use trying to describe the
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone said
Miss Winnie Millener, lit must be seen,
and even then it seems more dream
than reality" 1.-THE whole grand
spectacle makes my head giddy. l had
to close my eyes at times to shut out the
glory, for it overpowered me-" said Mrs.
Gilbert. Such are the words excited by
this most admirable and sublime picture
which the best artists vainly attempt to
reproduce.
Which of these phenomenal subjects,
canyon, mountain, geyser, sobbing foun-
tain, bleeding heart, or boiling cauldron
of rock ground into pudding, impresses
you most, is frequently asked of the VS.
itor when the whole has passed from the
objective into the realm of subjective.
The answer is usually, II cannot tell
what impresses me most. They differ so
much that comparison becomes impossi-
ible. When I see rainbows dancing in
the vapor of the Great Falls and then see
them dancing in the RAIN of great gey-
ser falling into the sky, and then see the
dramatic effect of such geysers as the
Evangeline, the Seraph or the Silver
Globe; when l see flowers nodded in the
margins of the chemical basins by invis-
ible agency, each in turn makes an i'm
preston SO unlike, that it is impossible to
say which impression is deepest. They
! are all most impressive" x.